Opera Glasses and Popcorn
The protest movement has swept over much of the country. Here, an anti-Gadhafi protester holds an AK-47 on the road to the town of Msaead. [REUTERS]
An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
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on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Diane, I moved those comments to spam, off the thread.
I have an email for ms xeno and will forward them directly to her.
thanks honey …I LOVE YOU!
Just got the message(s), d.
Thanks for the sympathy, but any violins I’ve ever owned are only of the metaphoric variety.
you’re welcome hon, anytime. ;0) (and duh, I missed the metaphor – blushy faced emoticon here)
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Mad dogs, they all are.
ROTFLMFAO!
According to the Defense Department’s own definition, psy-ops – the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behaviors – are supposed to be used exclusively on “hostile foreign groups.”
They’ve been using psy-ops on the AmPeeP for generations….
Unfortunately most of these idiots we call elected representative are too feeble-minded to recognize it.
Pathetic!
From 2006: Pentagon’s Zarqawi PSYOPS Mission Targeted Americans and this: Pentagon Planning War on Global Telecommunications
What was Bush’s side kick that got millions to influence public opinion? And wasn’t a Cheney daughter in on that too?
Not sure which Bushie you’re talking about – Armstrong Williams? – but Obama has one of his own.
embedded links in the article
To say nothng of the fucking faith based wing, a LOT more active than it ws under Bush 2.
And led, as I repeat ad nauseum, but a Pentecostalist preacher (and ObRama aide for 5 years), from a store front church in Cambridge MA.
One that preaches in tongues.
Ugh. On Obama.
It was Bush 2 I was thinking of. Her name is on the tip of my tougue.
From Texas, woman. Was with him for years.
Wendy Hughes?
I think that’s the one.
yeah, daughter of a very political general, largely grew up in DC.
And so it goes.
Karen “I need to spend more time with my family” Hughes….yep.
wha-da-ya-mean?!?! Those fighter jet flyovers at football games and Nascar races are just good clean patriotic FUN!
commie …
hippeee commie.
Hey, I think congress can teach the psy-ops a thing or two!
we should expect snow to the 300 ft level in the bay area on friday.
It’ll be -30C here tonite if that’s any consolation.
i know. I regret to have frozen toes (they start to freeze if I am in the kitchen for any length of time) when you and Madman live on the Great Expanse of the Northern Tundra.
We just get cold rain and damp chill off the sea and bay water. Wish I knew why 45 fuckign degrees can be so cold here.
Humidity chills me to the bone. I do better here when it’s -20 than when it’s 0.
problem is, Cali is not “humid,” not sure why all that ocean prevents it from being so (perhaps the salt?) but Cali is not considered humid, AT ALL, which is why if you walk into the shade on a really hot day in Cali, you will quickly notice the cooler temperature, unlike, say, the Sout’. When I moved from one of the higher humidity eas’ coas’ spots in the US, to dry CALI ……I froze my ass off in weather considered fairly warm from where I came from.
yeah but the coast here is not dry. Sure, drier 7 months of the year, but not in winter. Not in the 5 rainy months….
Fucking bitter cold, with damp chill off the water. Just piercing.
I’m so sick of trying not to fall down walking on icy sidewalks and climbing piles of snow getting on and off buses I could scream.
Right then — everybody to Austin!! I got room!
snow chains on your shoes!
I admit when i have been in really snowy weather, even when very young, I used a cane with a sharp metal point – it helped.
And you know, handy weapon, depending.
I should get one of those!
well – or snow tire shoes! 4 wheel drive personal propulsion! (a winterised Seqway?)
I miss midwest winter wonderland days.
And spring thunder storms…and the birds churping in the summer mornings.
You need some of those little toothy foot-grip things for your shoes, M.
We’re relatively unscathed here. Just a dusting of snow and a little ice, though it’s still quite cold.
My poor camelia bush had just had its first bloom open the morning before we got the snow. :/
Blooms? You have blooms? Outside??
I have blooming cactus and succulents. Outside.
Tho……………. I think the faded blossoms are freeeezin’ and dropping off these days.
The violets all bloomed about ten days ago. It’s actually normal around here for them to bloom once in late Winter and once in June, because our winters just aren’t that wintry.
Ironically, this means that plans meant to bloom at their best at the end or right after a true-blue Northern Winter– like snowdrops– don’t seem to do very well here at all: they can’t get a deep enough “sleep” before blooming because it doesn’t get cold enough.
I think I saw a dead baby bird the other day. Imposible.
good idea
this year’s crop of kisses ….. don’t seem as sweet to me [as what was sworn/pledged/promised by those most enabled to bring about necessary economic changes - as a matter of FACT, quite the opposite – diane]
this years crop just misses [the ”Just” in that phrase, quite deliberately ‘just [short of ] missing,’ yet still dangling ‘a promise’ – Just[ice] MISSES …not as in mrs. or misses – diane] what kisses used to be …..
(listening to Ella Fitzgerald, from a Verve cd,…titled:
Clap
Hands,
Here
Comes
Charlie
! )
Sharing the power in Tahrir Square
The Libya Nescafe Affair in the last thread reminds me of the company’s old jingle:
“…If Nescafe can please the whole wide world
They can sure please youuuuu…”
(Sorry. Couldn’t resist.)
Nothing worse than Osama bin Caffeinated.
With extra foam!
[roll on snare-drum]
I’ll have a double-shot mocha jihad with whipped cream!
And one of those foil-wrapped, hollow chocolate grenades with the surprise toy dictator of the month concealed inside!
yes!
I like the barristas with the matching bee-keeper suits!
Its funny you guys mentioning ad jingles:
When catnip noted the Canadian Rescue effort in Libya was cancelled over INSURANCE I couldn’t help but thinking..
They shoulda called GEICO.
15 Minutes Coulda Saved Em on Czar Insurance
Somethin like that.
So Easy even a CA- ( nah I didn’t want to go there)
The Walker Roadmap
I seriously can’t comprehend people who think this way.
This power grab by the Governor will be the beachhead for slashing medicaid rolls to record lows and planning the conservative opposition against health care reform more broadly
i posted the other day Deval Patrick, Demcrat and protege of Axelrod, is planning a re do (too expensive!, the story goes) of Romney Care. Part of it is moving state employees to MedicAid. Among other reicpients of state aid.
AND then, I am sure, dropping people from the MedicAid rolls. And the moves being made in AZ, abetted by the Feds (WH and HHS) is opening the way for this.
The ONLY thing that is coming that no one seems to “get” is that many companies will be dropping offering healt care at all.
Lots of people who think all of this will not affect their health care, will find out they are very very wrong.
Obama and the Dems were so Smart.
So smart. When presented with every opportunity,
they DOUBLED DOWN on THE WARS we wage on wha-what?~
30, 40 countries with upwards of a couple Billion People or so at any given time?
Surely goodness and kindness will follow us as we walk through the Valley of Death.
Yeh. well.
Cue the RESCUE FERRY… into AfPak now.
This from The Imperial Times today-
LiaR Liar …PANTS on Fire.
Dig these two gems:
This one, 4 months ago, pinched from some VERrry Optimistic Operation Musclehead Press Ops –
Oh I don’t think so: They got thrown back in 3 Days and were lucky to get out alive.
But it was all so Special then, LAST SUMMER, as the tale was then sold about Pech Valley in Stars and Stripes:
Read that Last Bit. Straight Up:
The U.S has gotten SHELLED OUT of AfPak.
This is where we’re talking about.
Run off the fools-errand-for-photo-ops in foothills above Peche where Joshua Bernard bled to death, we witness thoroughly discredited LIAR David Petraeus , General Walk Through The Valley of Death Himself, that LOSER of Life General and his welfare entourage Staff who the world will owe a living the rest of THEIR lives, they now seek to bluff it off as it was really NBD.
They should ALL BE HANGED as War Criminals.
Talk about stones,
General Psy Ops – STILL GOING!
has this DoD Press Release Today:
LOL. Ah well, Caldwell must have got to the NOT SUBMIT Submit Button before Petraeus.
For a fun read, and I do mean fun, as in fun for an insight into stupid, dumber’n fuck clueless family flag wavin discredited Petraeus groupie LOSERS let’s not forget..
… I found this on Abandoning the Pech Valley and Abandoning the Pech Valley Part II
Good Lord. Written by some Chester Knucklehead or other in Carolina, Herschel Smith to be precise, Praise Jeezis, who has a minor Mil readership and writes “The Captain’s Journal”.
And WHO IS the Captain?
Why yes, he sounds fully qualified.
To endorse Tactical Warfare, Jesus, and Petraeus.
Atop that Revolutionary Rag,
The Wall Street Journal –
Yep it’s Official. We bought ourselves one hootnanny of a Pan Arab transnational revolt.
The Saudis are announcing Billions in money to their own streets. You know who else is taking a bit hit in this? INDIA. Money just pouring out of their exchanges as it is, shall we say, redeployed.
The WSJ on it too.
Oh c’mon fellahs just say it.
The United Zionist Emirate States need to sell:
Two Weeks ago-
And this is no knock on India per se, anything with a bespoke curry flavor curries favor in my book: they have pursued independent negotiations track with Iran and Pakistan much to our Overlord’s, uhm , ~ Dismay? And they were wise in resisting U.S. pressure to conflate Mumbai, their internal affairs and regional relations as syynonymous with the US aims.
Nonetheless, they did lay down with us dogs, now didn’t they? Oh a bit. Oh enough, I’d say for the flea born Karma and capital to set in and flee once again…
Which brings us to the delicious bite:
How does that affect our marker to use them as the intermittent foil?
Pretty Yummy, no? Enjoy!
Even Indian bubbles fail. And fall.
On Roundup and our food:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/949492/-A-Scientific-Bombshell-Dropped-This-Week
If you think this is stupid…
…Then Dig the MASSIVE BUMMERAGE,
{not sure if its like a hemorrhage, but with bums, or just like a bum hemorrhage}
but dig the Biden/
“Stand Up and Take A Bow Moment- Ooops, there, Fellah!!!”
…down below…
::
And Gooserock, bless his heart, has taken to posting a pic of the an empty presidential podium, a keeper IMO…
Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia given the Ed Page at NYT…
Such farce. What Shite.
So obvious this guy’s Dad and the U.S. are teeing up the younger Talal to take over..
This is the “reformer” who has invested his lot with Citicorp for the last 25 years, bought his first boat from his arms trading mentor Adnan Khashoggi and flipped the raft to Donald Trump (which, BTW, Teh Donald lost the yacht in one of the first of HIS many bank burning casino mortgaging scams, which – gotta love it – the Prince repurchased after one of Trumps LATER rounds of bank burning casino mortgaging scams.) Anyways, “Reform” Prince Talal also bankrolls the George Herbert Walker Bush scholarship for under-served youth…LOL..at ANDOVER.
Oh he’s a regular Joe Talal from Riyahd all right.
Truth is, aside from his oil royalties, this Saudi nephew who is going to be the next King is one of the biggest Arms, Mercenaries, and Dope dealers in the world. Who for years now has owned close to 10% of Citigroup and Murdoch’s NewsCorp.
The King is Dead! Long Live the King!
ETC
Swine:
At least 5 dead in Libyan chaos, France says Gadhafi ‘must leave’
…while Obamalama won’t even mention his name.
hey hey catnip
I posted this to the new thread…
new
LINK
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